The UMSL Philosophy Department has a vibrant and fruitful faculty, and also supports its graduate students as they present and publish works. Below is a list of the latest news by its faculty and students.

Our M.A. students this winter have been admitted to many Ph.D. programs for the fall, including Rutgers, Virginia, Washington U, Colorado, Wisconsin, UC-Irvine, Ohio State, Syracuse and others.

Gualitero Piccinini has won an NSF Scholars Award for "Explaining Cognition Mechanistically".

BillyDunaway's "Luck: Evolutionary and Epistemic" is forthcoming inEpisteme and is available online.

Jill Delston collaborated with Huei-Wern Shen, & Yi Wang on “Does Sense Of Benevolence Influence Volunteering and Caregiving Among Older People?” in Social Work Research (in Press).

Eric Wiland's "Peer Disagreement and the Dunning-Kruger Effect" is forthcoming in Epistemeand can be found online, while his"Moral Testimony: Going on the Offensive" appeared in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, volume 12 (2017).

Lauren Olin's "Questions for a Theory of Humor" is forthcoming in Philosophy Compass, and her"Is Every Epistemology a Virtue Epistemology?" is forthcoming in Epistemic Situationism, Oxford University Press.

Lauren Olin, Thomas Ames, and Şerife Tekin served as critics of Philip Gerrans' The Measure of Madness at the upcoming APA Central.